Spectacular Plants Around the World Poster

Around the world UK – English sundew Canada – Pitcher plant (Drosera anglica) (Sarracenia purpurea) • Spectacular fact: This plant rolls captured • Spectacular fact: This killer plant has long insects into its leaves and digests them slowly tubes that are super slippery and filled with over time. Once digested the leaf unfurls ready a mix of rainwater and digestive enzymes at to trap a new insect victim. the base. • Fun fact: The sundew is covered in fine hairs • Fun fact: It cleverly uses its colourful hoods to that produce sticky droplets that attract attract prey who land on the lip of the tube and capture insects. and fall in. The liquids at the bottom of the tubes slowly digest the insect alive! Vietnam and Malaysia – Peacock fern North California – Coast redwoods (Selaginella willdenowii) (Sequoia sempervirens) • Spectacular fact: Its magnificent iridescent leaves are a blue-green colour and when • Spectacular fact: The tallest living trees in the viewed from different angles can sometimes world! With dizzying heights of 30-110m, these even appear pink or purple. giants can live for 1,000 to 2,000 years and take 400-500 years to reach maturity. • Fun fact: They grow in deep, shady areas of the forest and use their iridescent leaves to • Fun fact: This giant has soft squidgy bark that help them photosynthesise. is fire resistant and can be almost 30cm thick on mature trees. South & Central Africa – Baobab India and Sri Lanka – Talipot palm (Adansonia digitata) (Corypha umbraculifera) Sumatra, Indonesia – Titan arum lily Falkland Islands – Lady’s slipper Seychelles – Coco de mer palm • Spectacular fact: These tremendous trees are • Spectacular fact: One of the largest palm (Amorphophallus titanium) (Calceolaria fothergillii) known for their huge, swollen trunks. They can (Lodoicea maldivica) trees in the world! Its leaves alone are 5m • Spectacular fact: What a smell! Rotting flesh Australia – Stinging tree • Spectacular fact: This red and yellow flowering (Dendrocnide moroides) Mexico - Sweaty feet plant grow to 25m in height, with a girth to 28m and • Spectacular fact: Coco de mer or the double wide and make amazing umbrellas or roofs for is the scent of this flower, one of the most plant is endemic to the Falkland Islands. Being can live for up to 3,000 years. Known as upside coconut palm produces the world’s largest disgusting in the plant world. Local people (Deherainia smaragdina) houses where they grow. The leaves are so • Spectacular fact: This plant inflicts long endemic means it only grows in one country or down trees! and heaviest seeds. The seeds can weigh impressively massive they can shelter 10 adults call it ‘the corpse flower’. lasting pain through tiny hairs on its • Spectacular fact: Emerald green flowers that area of the world. between 20-30kg! under one leaf. branches, both sides of the leaves and stink of smelly feet or sometimes dog poo. Yuck! • Fun fact: These trees have white flowers • Fun fact: This plant’s massive flower grows even on its flowers. Ouch! • Fun fact: The reason they are called Lady’s that bloom at night and are pollinated by • Fun fact: This palm is the main tree species • Fun fact: Its small yellow, flowers are part of from a tuber and reaches 3m in height. Once it • Fun fact: A pretty flower regardless of its slipper is because the flower is the shape of a bats and moths. In the East of Africa, bush on the islands and over time they have the biggest flower inflorescence (cluster of has flowered a single leaf will emerge that will • Fun fact: These shrubs grow to 4-5m but can unpleasant smell, which it uses to attract slipper. You could imagine a tiny person wearing babies feed on the nectar in the flower adapted to produce giant seeds, which flowers) in the world at 6m tall. These grow up reach the size of a small tree at 7m high by 7m happily grow as small bushy plants that are flies to pollinate it. them as comfy shoes! helping with pollination. look like a bottom! and out from the top of the tree. wide. It can grow up to 10cm a day. known locally as ‘ankle biters’. Registered charity no. 222879/SC038262.

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